On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 19:15 -0700, drew wymore wrote: >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Someone <[email protected]> wrote: >> > My dad has one of those fancy quad core 64 bit Windows 7 laptops. I >> > have a Pentium III optimized LFS system which I can back up Windows and >> > Linux systems with as long as the computer is a Pentium III or IV. Will >> > a Pentium III Linux kernel boot a quad core computer??? >> > >> > I am using dd to dump entire hard drives, this is space intensive though >> > and I end up backing up fragmentation. Is there a better way that is as >> > powerful as hard drive imaging? Using dd is brute forcing the problem, >> > but this is a safe way to back a system up. >> > >> > If I need a 64 bit Linux kernel and a 64 bit optimized NFS mountable >> > Linux filesystem, how do I produce those on a 32 bit computer? Is it >> > possible to produce an Apple G3 compatible Linux system on a PIII based >> > Linux server? How about network booting a PC164 Alpha system? >> > >> > In general, I'm curious how to trick the Linux kernel source into >> > compiling on one computer for a totally different kind of computer. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PLUG mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > >> >> No offense meant by using lmgtfy > > What does lmgtfy mean? > > I want to be able to include my Dad's laptop in my network based backup > system which is made up of a network bootable Linux system and a large > backup area. For obvious reasons, installing Linux on my Dad's laptop > even just to export that installation to a server is not a realistic > option. > > Short of talking Dad into buying a second internal hard drive for his > computer and taking the Windows 7 drive out temporarily so I can install > 64 bit Linux, how am I going to put together a 64 bit Linux system > without a 64 bit quad core computer? I'm sure I'm not the only person > who cannot realistically buy a quad core computer just to facilitate > installing 64 bit Linux to it to then export that system over a network. > What if I had a really expensive mainframe computer with Windows on it > and I couldn't justify buying another one just in case? Heterogeneous > Linux/Windows networks are common where the difficulty of getting all > the machines backed up is nothing new. > > This problem isn't so far out where I would appreciate it if people > wouldn't resort to vague and probably colorful metaphors. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
Michael - I wasn't trying to use colorful metaphors nor not trying to be unhelpful. The very end of your query was about building 64 bit kernels on a 32 bit machine which would require cross compiling, hence the link to facilitate your search to help build upon the knowledge you'll need. Since you have a network with storage, perhaps setting up Samba and using Windows built in backup facilities to store the image that is created on the network? Maybe that would be a viable solution given my understanding of your network. If you can provide additional details about exactly how things are laid out specifically in relation to this particular task then we might be able to offer better tips and suggestions. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
